[Ham-Mac] Mac and PSK-31

[Chris Smolinski]

>It appears that I found and subscribed to Ham-Mac just in time!! 
>Thanks to everybody that answered by e-mail.  I really appreciate it.
>
>Chris, thanks for the heads-up about MultiMode 4.2.0 with the 
>waterfall.  I downloaded it and it appears to work pretty well, 
>although I couldn't find many stations.  It is a lot better than the 
>prior Blackcat

A waterfall for PSK31 was a popular request.

The bands have been very poor today, we've had several X class 
flares. And if you think this is bad, wait until the CME's hit in a 
few days :-(

>system. BTW Chris, I am glad that you have installed Panther.  Now 
>we have someone we can check with.  I bought my G5 several weeks ago 
>and one of the perks was that I could get Panther for about $ 20.00. 
>Of course I mailed in the papers and my check and am awaiting it. 
>Has it caused any problems with conflicts with you programs??  I am 
>expressly thinking about Norton's and Internet Cleanup.

No real problems, although iChat doesn't seem to want to connect to 
AIM anymore. That's really it for problems. Classic stuff still works 
OK. Well, it works like it used to ;-)


>Tom mentioned I might want to install X11.  I don't have it and it 
>looks like the new  MultiMode may just be the ticket.  I have 
>Rigblaster, but I understand they don't recommend using it with the 
>Macintosh computers.  May have torig up something.

I found that the Rigblasters assume the serial port puts out +/- 12V, 
not the +/-5 standard with Macs. If you change the resistors in 
series with the serial port lines on the Mac to lower values, it 
should work.

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Chris Smolinski
Black Cat Systems
http://www.blackcatsystems.com